It does, eh Quix?
The Pope, A list of other guilty in the RC hierarchy, a list of other Pentecostals and other Evangelicals who parade around in the stinking finery of their own self-righteousness and self-justifications.
So, to clarify: are you telling us that rock-throwing is hazardous, but boulder-throwing is a good idea?
Just trying to find the logic in your thought process.
Yeah,
I see a marked qualitative difference between
telling it like it is—calling a spade a spade about
horrific blasphemy; horrific idolatry; . . . gross hypocrisy and sin . . . etc.
vs
personal pique; personal sensibilities jangled; pet personal convictions jangled; personal prideful interpretations jangled; organizational idolatries jangled;
We each have to be and will definitely be accountable to God for how we assess, judge . . . others.
Lots of things are not as they seem. Some are.
Paula what’s-her-face jangles some of my sensibilities. I’m embarrassed by her. I think she and Hinn and a list of others have disgraced God and The Gospel in a list of ways.
NEVERTHELESS, it is STILL very hazardous to get on a PERSONAL HIGH HOBBY HORSE out of a PERSONAL pique, self-righteousness etc. and in fleshly critical judgment judge her or the Pope or the pedophile priests or anyone else.
Sometimes the line does seem thin. When it’s thin, the hazards are multiplied.
THE ATTITUDES AND MOTIVES OF THE HEART ARE SUPER CRUCIAL TO BE RIGHT BEFORE GOD IN SUCH MATTERS.
In my experience, those quickest to dogpile onto a rock-throwing brigade are those who’ve never had their own sins and sinfulness rubbed relentlessly into their noses, face, hearts, minds, lives.
In a sense, Jim Baker was exceedingly right. PRISON WAS GOD’S GRACE TO HIM. It brought him to himself; to his knees; to humility and vulnerability before God—and to a quality of Salvation and brokenness and contriteness before God he’d not ever have experienced otherwise.
We are ALL sinful creatures. Scripture says that those who think otherwise are deceived liars.
Scripture says we all see through the glass darkly.
Scripture says we all fall short of The Gospel.
In a sense, such facts could silence all of us from saying any exhortive, negative thing about anyone, to any degree, for any reason.
Yet, God and His Word require us to warn a brother; speak the truth in love; exhort the faithful and the sinner; cry the alarm etc.
That can be a frightfully humbling mandate given all the givens.
Yet, God also classes cowards with the homosexuals and others condemned.
At some point, there’s no hiding, shirking from the tasks of affirmation, declaration God calls us to. And, yes, the best preachers I’ve ever known could often be seen preaching at themselves and noting it in the process.
In my case, I can only earnestly seek to write as God lays it on my heart as best as I can discern such and deliver such to the reader. I know I’ll miss the mark of the high calling frequently. Yet, I must press on. God knows my heart. He knows my desire to be right before Him; to Love Him and others—including all the RC’s hereon.
Life and reality = a multi-dimensional mine field of values, truth, deceptions, hypocrisies etc.
Yet, into the fray God calls us and places us all.
Those who cannot discern the difference between flesh-driven, personal/organizational idolatrous pique rock throwing vs
declaring Biblical and reality truth out of a good heart and motivation . . .
probably should shut-up until they can.